Gibbons v. Bowen

How courts have described this case

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• holding that practice of Illinois officials to give candidates from their party the top ballot position “worked a substantial disadvantage” to candidates from the opposing party, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
• holding the district court abused its discretion in ordering county clerks to adopt a specific rotational system for ballot placement
• holding county clerks listing their own party’s candidates first was unconstitutional and ordering the defendants to implement an alternative “neutral in character”
• affirming that county clerks excluding plaintiffs from top ballot positions violated equal protection
• affirming that county clerks excluding plaintiffs from top ballot positions violated equal protection
• affirming a trial court holding that ballot position preference inheres even in a general election ballot

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